What does the Polish surname "Gucinski" mean?

Question

I haven't been able to figure it out online or anywhere else.

Answer 1

i dont think it has an english translation

Answer 2

Probably the original spelling would be Guciński (with ń).

The -ski is an adjectival suffix, which can be added directly to a stem -- as piekarski means "of the baker (piekarz)" -- or can be compounded with other suffixes. Two common suffixes that can precede -ski are: 1) -ew- or -ow- (basically the same thing, dependent on whether the stem ends in a consonant classified as hard or soft); and 2) -in- or -ien- or -yn. The -yn is added to stems ending in hard consonants, the other two added to "soft" stems; for all intents and purposes, -ien- can be regarded as a variant of -in-, often indicating some dialect difference in pronunciation. Both prefixes have a possessive meaning, so that -owski/-ewski and -i[e]nski/-ynski mean "of the _'s." In the suffix combinations -inski and -ynski the N is softened and spelled with an accent, which I render on-line as N~ (-in~ski and -yn~ski).

About the GUC, as far as I know that is word that has no meaning in Polish. I will try to find more info about it later and edit this post.

Answer 3

Surnames don't always have certain meaning - both in Polish and English. Suffix -ski is typical for Polish surnames, what's more, it makes them grammatically adjectives. That suffix was used to make surnames for noblemen. Most likely, some ancestors of the "Gucinski" man possessed a village named Gucin - I'm sure there are couple of them in Poland.